"Screen Resolution Problems"

recently i decided to reinstall my operating system on my dell dimenstion 4600C thinking that it would somehow improve my computer and make some of the games i play run better, but instead it turns out that i have ended up with more problems. after reintalling windows xp, my screen resolution showed up as 640 x 480, which is HUGE!!! and the color quality is at 16 bits, and unable to change also. the problem is that i am unable to use the slide bar to change the resolution. doing some research i believe that i have some sort of driver issue, but cannot resolve it myself. i have gone into device manager and there are a few things with the yellow question marks next to them, and one(video controller (vga compatible)) with a yellow exclaimation mark next to it. i have a feeling that in the reinstallation process drivers were uninstalled because my audio drivers were not installed either. can someone please help me, this thing is really starting to bug me.

Correct, this is a driver issue. Dell ships an operating reinstallation disk and a driver installation disk. You'll need to run the driver installation disk to install the drivers for your video card, sound card, etc.

If you don't have the disk you can download the drivers directly from the dell website. www.dell.com

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen

You can use that link or go to dell, click on support, choose drivers, then click the link to by service tag. Enter you service tag of your device and dell will show you drivers that are available for that system